’Av it! Butts are suddenly all the rage for managers

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It will go down as the week in which football managers finally said: “Enough.” They’re not going to take it any more. Now it gets brutal. Who wants some? No ifs. Just butts.

First, a freshly showered Tony Pulis comes barrelling out of the wet room to plant one on James Beattie, the Stoke City striker, in the away team’s dressing room at the Emirates Stadium. Smack! Take that, nearly-man!

Within days, Jim Magilton has been suspended by Queens Park Rangers for giving Akos Buzsaky a good piece of his forehead (allegedly) in the dressing room after a 3-1 defeat